“You need to be detail-oriented and come up with a very precise test plan,” she says. “When you’re working with human test subjects, you have to design a test where you get constructive feedback on things that are squishy subjects, like comfort. Aitchison says the job requires both critical thinking and creativity. Designing space suits requires a particular set of skills.Īnd they’re not necessarily the ones you might think.
We asked Lindsay Aitchison, Space Suit Engineer at the Advanced Space Suit Design Group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, to walk us through the process. But there are plenty of things you might not know about how these suits go from concept to prototype to the final frontier.
It’s no secret that astronauts couldn’t survive the harsh environment of space without their suits.
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